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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3065, 11 December 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WILLIAM 808 BE TT, BTTTf HER (XATB DOBHWUII's), ROLLESTON-STREET, KARAKA, OPPOBITB , TOII "BnSXISH CHtTECH, AND POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. GprtifidiPork and Beef of the very best quality. ' EI3T QUALITY ONLY KEPT.' 486 r . . -'. ••'•'. •.'' .— —— WO. DENNES, IMPORTER OF EVERY description of DOMESTIC and MANUFACTURING Sewing Machines to be had at the Thames Branch, Pollen street, at Auckland Prices on Weekly or Monthly Payments. Liberal Discount for Cash. Questions to be considered in Buying a SEWING MACHINE .—' Where can I see the LARGEST ASSORTMENT to select from ? ' Where can.l see SAMPLES of every variety of WORK the different kinds of MACHINESDO? „„' mn Where can I have a MONTH'S FREE TRIAL to test whether Hike the Machine ? ,-■' Where can Ib» TAUGHT how to do all "* the different kinds of work the Machine is ', guaranteed to perform FREE of CHARGE ? Where can I* buy a Machine that shall be lept in repair for a TWELVEMONTH FREE OF CHARGE? : All these advantages are offered by. W. C. , Djbnnes: : Any Lady who cannot get out to view the Machines can have one seat her free of charge for trial, and a lesson at her house, by sending on a Post Card the kind of Machine she; would like, addressed — Manager, W. 0. ■ Drorareß, Pollen street, Thames. • Now in stock at the Branch Dep&t— Wheeler and Wilson's new Straight Needle »nd old style Bow Needle, Wertheim Treadle (Rands to arrive), Princess of Wa'es, Dolly Vardens, Europa, and. in addition "Royal Washing Machines, Wringers, Fret Baws. Needles for all Machines Two Shilling per dozen. / GREAT CENTRAL DEPOT, Qtobh STBBsr Auckland; .:.:.■.■-■.,■■..,■ i : .-..- ■■ ■■ 2785 IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. SUBSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. TTTILLIAM MoCULLOUGH, 1 VBNIN& STAS OIFIOB, Gbahavstowh, Has! been appointed Agent at the Thames or above well-known and. old-established Company,, and is prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. W. H. Abmstbono, 8.2 Agent. jy T :,N'-:.i . M I T E. Jirra Abbiteo. per Qtteen ox 1 thb West, J from London— TEN-TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED . COPPER WIRE, Etc., Em, Eto. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in übo. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STQ RAGE. Extracts from the Official evidence given before /^fee House of Commons Select Committee :.' on Explosive Substances—Parliamentary Session of 1874, London. Be*es filled with dynamite have been thrown from a great height, and found to sustain any amount of shock without exploding. They . have alsoheen placed upon anopen fire, when the dynamite burned slowly away without explddinjr.- i-Parliamentary report—Blue Book, •DBKel79. ■ ... . . pynomite has been in a railway collision *nd, though the van and boxes containing it •were broken, no explosion took plaoe.-—-Blue ■Bbftki 1 rag* 182, par. 2979 , - Maior Majendie, R.A., HM'3. Inspector of 'Onnro'wder and Dynamite Factories, states, in his evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law iwltitina to dynamite is as nmoh too stringent Z the gunpowder law ia too lax; and (page la nar 115) that the time has come for reHeviW Bafe nitro-glycerine preparations, from _ such unnecessary restrictions as the Nitroehcerine Act imposes upon them. * Professor Abel, the Che -rustto Her Majesty's War Department, gives hi. experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest, -i Powerful and most convenient explosive industrial purposes.ilae Book, pages 56^ and 59. Agents : " E p O R-T- E R & CO., kmm STREET, AUCKLAND.^